TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Lerone Jr TI - Before the Mayflower; a history of black America SN - 0140072144 AV - E185 .B4 1969 U1 - 973/.09/7496 PY - 1982/// CY - Chicago PB - Middle sex Penguin Books Limited KW - African Americans KW - History KW - sears N1 - Bibliography: p. [440]-453; Young Adult; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - Traces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s ER -